In the texts Night‚ written by Dr.Elie Wiesel‚ “My Ethics My Code”‚ written by Rachel Scott‚ and “Give”‚ by Anne Frank‚ the three stories all share an significant common message. The central message the three stories show is the theme of companionship‚ helping the unfortunate and standing up for other to survive and live. The three authors‚ Dr.Elie Wiesel‚ Rachel Scott‚ and Anne Frank all have a common belief of being a witness and not a bystander and ignore the terrible things. “People will never
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The author Frank Trippets states that ‘Americans are used to thinking that law-and-order is threatened by only violent crime‚ but the foundation of social order are profoundly shaken when ordinary law-abiding take to skirting the law’. The author has some valid points when he says this. Small laws can hurt the community when people who regularly obey the law are breaking the law in small ways. People are just to used to hearing about the big crimes that people just might not give a damn about the
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he was not expecting. When the monster is brought to life the doctor says “I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished‚ the beauty of the dream vanished‚ and the breathless horror and disgust had filled my heart" (Shelley 34). Dr. Frankenstein is very selfish because he flees and does not take full responsibility of his creation. When Dr. Frankenstein was in the process of shaping his creation his intentions were naïve. He did not imagine that when he
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very obvious that Victor Frankenstein has changed dramatically. In the beginning Victor Frankenstein was a sane‚ ambitious man who focused on his studies but as time goes on and he creates a creature he begins to lose his sanity. Victor states “all my speculations and hopes are as nothing; and‚ like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence‚ I am chained in an eternal hell”. By Victor stating that he is expressing how he regrets taking the omnipotent role because it has literally brought him nothing
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Complex Sentences Complex sentences are sentences that have several parts‚ each with a verb‚ and these parts are joined by ‘joining words’ (连词). For example‚ here are two simple sentences: “I know a man. He has five children.” If you join these two sentences by using the relative pronoun (联系代名词) ‘who’‚ it now becomes a complex sentence: “I know a man who has five children.” (By the way‚ ‘who’ is not pronounced with extra word stress here. You only stress this word when it means ‘ 谁?’‚ which
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September 24‚ 2012 King Oedipus- Essay "What walks on four legs at dawn‚ two legs at noon‚ and three legs at nightfall." This was the riddle posed by the Sphinx who at the time was destroying the city of Thebes. The riddle was solved by none other than Oedipus who was made king for ridding the city of the Sphinx. Ironically though‚ Oedipus in his life comes to embody the riddle of the Sphinx and its soulution. Firstly‚ the Sphinx is percieved as a curse on Thebes and Oedipus also becomes a curse by
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Frank J. Tipler III is a mathematician and physicists born in February 1‚ 1947. He did BS from MIT and doctorate from University of Marlyand. Currently he is a professor at University of Tulane where he teaches mathematics and physics. The first article entitled Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Skeptical View of Radio Searches is a letter written in response to an article and was posted on Science magazine in 1983. This article talks about the use of radio technology for the SETI program. Tipler
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Frankenstein; or “The Modern Prometheus”‚ is a Gothic novel written by Mary Shelley who was a famous British novelist‚ short story writer‚ dramatist‚ essayist and biographer. Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she was 18 years old‚ and portrays a story of a scientist‚ Victor Frankenstein‚ who learns to create a life with decomposed body parts and ultimately ends up creating a monster. Frankenstein was one of the most prominent science fiction and gothic horror novels that initiated a diverse variety
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OEDIPUS REX AN ENGLISH VERSION BY DUDLEY FITTS AND ROBERT FITZGERALD Table of Contents: PERSONS REPRESENTED: OEDIPUS A PRIEST CREON TEIRESIAS IOCASTE MESSENGER SECOND MESSENGER CHORUS OF THEBAN ELDERS SHEPHERD OF LAIOS ANTIGONE‚ Daughter of Oedipus ISMENE‚ Daughter of Oedipus PROLOGUE THE SCENE. Before the palace of Oedipus‚ King of Thebes. A central door and two lateral doors open onto a platform which runs the length of the facade. On the platform‚ right
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Women were often given roles as complex characters in Greek tragedies. These roles commonly provided insight on the different ways women were viewed in ancient Greek society. Jocasta in Sophocle’s play‚ Oedipus the King and Medea in Euripides’ play Medea are two examples of such characters. Both Jocasta and Medea are represented as tragic female characters as a result of their unfortunate circumstances‚ their loyalty to their husbands and their loss of their children. Jocasta and Medea are both
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